The (Dark) "Cloud"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Hi FCD. Wow, you always write in this style? Excellent informative story telling posts! Guess I never acquainted myself with your former threads on ATS, but I like what you have conveyed thus far. I was a network engineer for years, managed R&D Labs, and network protocol analysis and validation & verification was my expertise for Ethernet, PPP, ATM, DSL, WiMAX, WiFi. Also, did validation on chipset backdoors, but that is a long story in of itself. I was a long standing member of IETF, IEEE, ITU, DSL Forum, WiFi Alliance. I was one of the pioneers in proto-typing xDSL for the telco's to roll out in the US, UK, Spain, France, Germany.

Assisted in the design, development, & certification of the world's first desktop WiFi chip & card that was it's own host. Unfortunately, due to an internal battle royale with Microsoft it was never released. Million$ down the shitter.

I've always been fascinated with year 1983 and alot happened. Motorola released the first consumer cell phone that year. Comdex 1983 in Vegas is where my dad met Bill Gates and 5 years later made a small fortune off Microsoft. Wish I had his foresight.



1983::

Apple released the Apple IIe with a 1.023 MHz processor, 64 KB of memory and the ProDOS operating system in January 1983.

The IBM XT was first introduced on March 8, 1983.

IBM announced the PCjr (PC junior)

DNS was introduced.

Microsoft Windows version 1.0 was announced on November 10, 1983.

Ping utility released.

Compaq introduced the first 100% IBM compatible computer the "Compaq Portable"

Novell introduces Netware, the first NOS (network operating system) 

MS-DOS 2.0 released.

Introduction of the first 3.5-inch size hard drive, developed by Rodime. It had a storage capacity of 10 MB. WoW.

Old fav - The movie WarGames released on June 3, 1983.

TIME magazine nominates the personal computer as the "machine of the year" December 26, 1982, the first non-human ever nominated.

We live in a duality world so will always be a dark side to technology, but like you said the problem is balance, which we're way outta wack today. I keep just about everything stored locally...hard drives, discs, and a shoe box full of USB pen drives.

Ok, enough of the past. I'll await your part III before commenting on the "Cloud" to see if you cover what I have in mind.